Baptism

Chris is a young man we met while preaching on the streets in downtown Springfield. He spoke with Brian a year or so ago and then more recently he spoke with Brian again one weekend and then with David K, Kevn and Olen the next weekend. At that point he decided to leave all and follow the Lord. He has had to fight many battles but has been faithful. He is a blessing to have around and we praise the Lord for another brother.

Chris was baptized 1 1/2 weeks ago; here are a few pictures of that:

Baptism in Mexico

David went to Mexico last weekend to baptize Damian - you can see him on the right with the striped shirt. Marcus is to his left, and then David in the lighter shirt.

Please pray for Damian ... he has a lot of opposition.

Brian M. and Marcus.

How could I not include this? Randall and Roger.

India

Brother David recently went to India again. The pastor's meeting seemed to go well; he spoke a lot about selfishness and covetousness. He then came home and preached a condensed version to the congregation in Monett. If you would like to listen to that, here is the link: It's Not About You.

Brother Raja's wife seems to be recovering well from her recent surgery, and all the children are doing good as well; praise the Lord.

Here is a picture of the children and also of Raja, his wife and his mother in law.

Over a year ago some of the brothers from Monett were preaching in the market somewhere in Peru - I assume it was Chincha. There they met Roberto and Alicia - a couple not yet married but together for quite a while. They have decided to follow the Lord, were married and Brother David baptized them last weekend; praise the Lord! Here is a picture of them:

They live in Chincha and have an evangelical-type bookstore there. Since their decision to follow the Lord, they see that they need to get rid of the bookstore; we pray they continue to walk by faith, obeying the Lord.

Brother Olen is staying in Pisco for a while with Sister Petronila and her granddaughter, and then making rounds to the others scattered around Peru. Pisco is some distance from Chincha, so Petronila, Roberto, Alicia and Olen have been meeting every other week or so at Petronila's house. Brother Anthony from Huancayo makes it when he can, and Olen travels to see Anthony as much as he can.

Petronila and Anthony

Olen and Petronila's granddaughter

I pray I got all of this correct - if not, someone please let me know; thank you.

A letter from India

Brother Raja sent this letter to Kevn here in Monett in regards to David's recent visit:

Dear beloved brother Kevn,

 

Greetings to you from India and from Raja and Ebba, thankyou for your prayers and encouragement,

 

we had very good time with bro David this time in india and in our new land and building, some pastors were touched by the word of God, hope they should follow fully truth, and some of our younger girls want to give their heart to Jesus, but we told them to wait and leave all the worldly things like ornaments, etc, brother David also told this, we are teaching them everyday to follow the Lord.children all very good time with brother David,

 

we have some finishing work for the building like plastering and waiting for electracity,please pray for them, now sometime raining in our area, we are much like for th cool weather,

 

children all conveying their greetings to you all, we pray for your family and all our brothern doing good in the Lord.

 

Thanking you so much, we are waiting for your reply.

In Christ's love

Raja

India happenings

Brother David went India a few weeks ago and was able to stay at the new orphanage ... it still has a ways to go, but it is livable.  Raja and his wife are thankful for the new building and home for their orphans!  I'm sure they are all much more comfortable there.  They hope to have more room built on to the top and are also hoping for electricity.  They have their own well, however they cannot use it because it requires an electric pump.  For now they are using a different well; the girls take care of getting water every day.

While there, David met with the pastors several times; it seems to have went very well.

I tried to make a video of the pictures, however it would not download here ... so, here are a few of the pictures David was able to take on his phone.

Working on the roof

Getting a drink of water

In line for a meal

The dining room :)

Street Preaching With Signs

There was a car show going on in downtown Monett, MO this evening, so the brothers took to the streets with their signs ...

Brother Kevn and Brother Marcus stood where the traffic coming in and out could see them.  They also talked to pedestrians that stopped.

Brother Corban and Brother David V. walked up and down the main street with their signs; several people stopped them to talk.

This man stopped and talked for about a half hour - it was a blessing to listen in.